JF

The carnage of the Cold War was not done in America or the USSR, but in Vietnam, in Indonesia, in Afghanistan, Argentina, Cambodia. And the two nations came too close to nuclear exchange too many times -- most often, it was the Soviets who pulled back, not the US.

However, I think what a bunch of the left is worried about is any competition between nation-states. This is why they are worried about a "new cold war" even though there is zero evidence (nor the material conditions for) proxy wars as there were between the US & USSR.

What the left actually objects to is any disentangling of Chimerica, a trade arrangement begun in the 1990s under the neoliberal Clinton administration which benefitted the PRC at the expense of American workers. Any attempt to reempower American workers is, to them, "the brink."

This does explain the innate hostility whenever someone complains of supply chains originating in PRC, and that person is immediately cast as "not woke" or "stupid"

It's unmistakable and hilariously craven

Those democrats are destined to become Republicans or drop out of the system which is all the more reason the left is certain they need to die off ASAP